Florida Man Sues Apple for $10+ Billion, Says iOS Devices Copy His 1992 Drawings

Unfortunately for this guy, 5 years earlier Apple Computer held a contest at a number of American universities to "Design the Computer of the Year 2000". The judges included Steve Wozniak and Alan Kay.

The winning entry, called Tablet, was from the University of Illinois. One of the team members? Stephen Wolfram.

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/tablet-p...

Wow, the other team members aren't slouches either, Arch D. Robison and Steven Skiena are pretty neat!

Steve's book, The Algorithm Design Manual, was pretty inspirational to me in high school. Arch did a compiler, KAI C++, and designed Intel's TBB library (Thread Building Blocks).

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Isaac Newton

"This sketch of Rosie Jetson I drew in the 1950s is responsible for the billions of dollars of wealth produced by the AI industry" - Somebody in a few years

Not shocking in a society that glorifies "intellectual property" and "job creating" ideas men

Star Trek had that stuff in the 1960's